A working-class white woman who clings to guns and/or religion, smokes a pack of cigarettes every day, voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential primaries, and plans to vote for John McCain out of spite when the general election rolls around.

Kentucky and West Virginia are full of Bitters.

Hey, look at that sour old shotgun-toting Bitter over yonder! What's that, her 10th cigarette break in 2 hours?

Expression of being in a bad mood over a relatively minor incident, often resulting after a series of minor bad events over the course of a certain period of time

I am so bitter this morning. Last night I forgot to set my alarm clock an hour back for daylight savings so it went off an hour early and I couldn't fall back asleep, I went to go eat breakfast and their was mold on the bread and we were out of pulp free OJ, and I didn't have any clean socks so I had to wear flip flops to school in the rain and I hate school in the rain, don't you?

English beer that is brewed to be usually %9 alcohol (versus the pussy-ass 3.2 beer of the 'states) and is meant to be served at room temperature. Bitters usually has a bitter taste, initially, but as you drink it the lager tends to have a sweet after taste that really grows on you.

White, less-educated, individuals who trend conservative (either on social values or economic policy); small-town, working class people; individuals with less than four years of college who earn less than 50K per year; religious, pro-gun, social conservatives.

Derived from Barack Obama's quote:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

"That's right, America: you can add Florida to the long list of Bitters forged in the crucible of the endless, violent, gnashing-of-teeth and rending-of-garments campaign of 2008." --Wonkette

"They have many Bitters in Michigan ever since the Chinese & Mexicans took their factory jobs." --Wonkette